FEB 15 Webinar in Español: Snoezelen ‘cambio de mirada’

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This presentation will be given in SPANISH. An English translation of the summary is given below.

Presentation of topics is approximately 45 minutes, with some additional time allowed for discussion. These sessions are provided as an educational service to promote the potentials and possibilities for quality of life outcomes, when working with others in multi-sensory environments.

We are welcoming Maria José Cid RODRÍGUEZ as our presenter. She lives and works in Amposta (Catalunya) Spain. This capital city is situated about 60 miles (100 km) south of Barcelona on the Mediterranean Coast. Maria shares her formal studies and professional background with her audiences, and you are welcome to view her curriculum vitae (view in Spanish or view in English).

English translation: The intervention snoezelen as we all know, is a way to offer people who for a certain profile have difficulties when it comes to enjoying the sensations, the opportunity for them to enjoy this enjoyment. In the intervention snoezelen, the person is offered from adapted environments and specially designed rooms, with a very specific equipment, the possibility of experiencing sensory inputs of different modality. In this way, and with a very specific methodology, communication with the person is promoted and above all, it is about offering the possibility of pleasant and satisfactory emotional experiences.

In this intervention, the role of the professional who carries out the intervention is fundamental. The designs of appliances, Room designs in general can be very beautiful, sophisticated and at the same time very much expensive … But this fact does not guarantee that the intervention has to fulfill its purpose, which as we discussed is to share a pleasant time with the person and enhance their communication with the environment.

To truly achieve this goal, it is essential that the snoezelen therapist offers “a very special look”. It is about considering a double idea:

– On the one hand understand that body language, human ethology will determine the effectiveness of the intervention. It will be fundamental the fact of sensitivity, body positioning, body language in short, to offer the person the intervention that needs. In turn, the professional snoezelen must know how to “read” the body of the person receiving the attention; that is, which sensory channels are “open”, which indicates their position, … .. In this way, the “devices” that are mediators between the professional and the user will be used correctly and understood as what they are, devices .

Another fundamental idea is that the snoezelen intervention does not focus only on the interior of a room with a modern and very special design. The snoezelen intervention has to be framed in the concept snoezelen 24 hours. That is to say, to understand that all the day to day of the person offers the possibility of enjoying, feeling, living sensory experiences. In this way, our look as professionals has to expand the room and offer at each moment of the day of the person a sensorially adapted and pleasant environment.)

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